Faculty

Dr. Allayee is Professor of Preventive Medicine and Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. His research program is focused on using multi-disciplinary genetics/genomics approaches to understand complex disorders, with an emphasis on cardiovascular, metabolic, and inflammatory diseases. In particular, his laboratory employs systems genetics strategies to dissect the architecture of complex diseases where a variety of intermediate phenotypes at the molecular, proteomic, and metabolomic levels are integrated into the genetic analyses. Current projects involve large-scale population studies in humans, gene-environment interactions, functional experiments using molecular genetics techniques, and the generation and characterization of mouse models. Dr. Allayee received his Ph.D. in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics in 1999 from the University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to joining USC, Dr. Allayee completed NIH Postdoctoral Fellowships at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and the David Geffen School of Medicine UCLA.

Guide and Position of the International Society of Nutrigenetics/Nutrigenomics on Personalized Nutrition: Part 2 - Ethics, Challenges and Endeavors of Precision Nutrition J Nutrigenet Nutrigenomics. 2016; 9(1):28-46. . View in PubMed

Guide and Position of the International Society of Nutrigenetics/Nutrigenomics on Personalised Nutrition: Part 1 - Fields of Precision Nutrition J Nutrigenet Nutrigenomics. 2016; 9(1):12-27. . View in PubMed

Identification of ADAMTS7 as a novel locus for coronary atherosclerosis and association of ABO with myocardial infarction in the presence of coronary atherosclerosis: two genome-wide association studies Lancet. 2011 Jan 29; 377(9763):383-92. . View in PubMed

Inflammatory gene variants in the Tsimane, an indigenous Bolivian population with a high infectious load Biodemography Soc Biol. 2011; 57(1):33-52. . View in PubMed

Effects of PNPLA3 on liver fat and metabolic profile in Hispanic children and adolescents Diabetes. 2010 Dec; 59(12):3127-30. . View in PubMed

Integrating genotypic and expression data in a segregating mouse population to identify 5-lipoxygenase as a susceptibility gene for obesity and bone traits Nat Genet. 2005 Nov; 37(11):1224-33. . View in PubMed

A genome-wide set of congenic mouse strains derived from DBA/2J on a C57BL/6J background Genomics. 2005 Sep; 86(3):259-70. . View in PubMed